Eyes On The Enterprise
Major League Baseball Improves Racial Diversity
NEW YORK (AP) - While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.
Racial diversity among senior team administrators improved to 19.9 percent from 17 percent.
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Networking Key To Minorities Finding Jobs
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and with the black unemployment rate at about 14 percent, almost double the overall unemployment rate of 7.6 percent, Foster Williams says that unemployed African-Americans need to take a new approach.
Williams is managing partner of Search4uinc.com, an employment networking organization based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Williams, who says he has 10,000 people in his network, also helps job seekers brush up their resumes and coaches them on interview questions.
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GMI Reveals Gender Diversity Lagging On Corporate Boards
On May 1, GMI Ratings released its annual “Women on Boards” report, which found the percentage of female directors in large companies — those among the Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 500 — rose only one-half of a percentage point since December 2011. The rate of increase rose slightly higher among smaller companies in the S&P Midcap and S&P Smallcap indices.
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Fast Food Workers Fight For Minimum Wage
Alvin Turner met Chad Tall late last month in pursuit of a cause that now spans the course of both their lifetimes.
Turner was there back in 1968, when Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis to demonstrate in support of striking sanitation workers like him merely seeking a livable wage. This time, the 78-year-old rebel took his defiant stance in New York’s Time Square, side-by-side, the 20-year-old
Tall and 400 other protesting fast food workers again moved to take matters to the streets.
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India Concerned About U.S. Immigration Bill Ramifications
India Concerned About U.S. Immigration Bill Ramifications
MUMBAI, India (AP) — Low cost efficiency put India's outsourcing companies at the heart of global business and created a multi-billion dollar industry that for years skated over criticism that it eliminated white collar jobs in rich nations. Now, the reality of the industry's long-held fears of a backlash is hitting hard in its crucial U.S. market.
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Black Investors Cautiously Optimistic On Economy
While some segments of the economy remain in a slump and unemployment remains high for many African Americans, the niche of black investors report “high levels of confidence” in their financial future, according to a recent nationwide financial survey released April 10.
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Urban League Details State of Blacks in America
The Urban League details the state of black in America, in its recent annual report, as one where the economic equality gap continues to increase.
Half a century since Martin Luther King delivered his historical “I Have a Dream” speech and now, the latter stages of the two-term tenure of the first African-American to occupy the White House, not only do blacks persist in lagging behind whites in economic equality, the gap is actually widening.
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Immigrant Work Visa Requests Exceed Available Jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Homeland Security Department expects applications for high-skilled immigration visas to exceed the available jobs in a matter of days, one of the fastest runs on the much-sought-after work permits in years and a sign of continued economic recovery amid new hiring by U.S. technology companies.
The urgent race for such visas - highly desired by Microsoft, Apple, Google, and other leading technology companies - coincides with congressional plans to increase the number available to tech-savvy foreigners.
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Silent War On Decent Living Wage
A war has been raging under foot for the better part of 50 years about what constitutes a decent living wage. It is an economic war that affects mostly minorities, and poor whites, and the stench of “collateral damage” is overwhelming.
As the line of “lambs being led to the fiscal slaughter” grows, valuable human resources have become nothing more than a down payment on perpetuating the lifestyle and toys of the wealthy.
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How Do You Fight Classism In The Workplace?
Just when we appear to be making some headway in uncovering and confronting racism, sexism, ageism, and a host of other “isms” in the workplace, a new inequity has been identified. The issue of workplace classism has arisen at a time when a national conversation is taking place about American socioeconomic classes. So classism at work is a new problem, right? No, classism has been prevalent in the American workplace since the days of cottage industries.
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